I was still a young gay boy when I happened on the phrase “you can’t be gay and poor.” I would go on to grow up around many, mostly straight, people who repeated this line. Where had they heard this?
I didn’t know then and I still don’t know now. What I do know is that I am not the only one who has heard it and that many have internalised this kind of thinking: “You can’t be gay and broke/you can’t be gay and poor” – or any other classist permeation of this line.
But what does who I sleep and socialise with have to do with my wallet? I will concede that this notion seemed for a while all too attractive to me, after all, class was used for many of us as a means to escape from various forms of discrimination.
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